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Embers Films is a documentary production company based in New York City.  It is headed by Aashish Kumar, an award-winning filmmaker with over two decades of experience producing, writing and distributing non-fiction content.  


Aashish is  deeply interested in using documentary storytelling to influence local actions for community advocacy or policy.  Aashish has produced independent documentaries and worked in collaborative settings with community-based organizations on themes such as bias crimes, human rights, and mental illness. His most recent film The Community I Serve won the “Best of Festival” award at the BEA Festival of Media Arts and won an “Honorable Mention” at the Columbus International Film and Video Festival.  An earlier work on hate crimes titled Raising Our Voices was placed in a permanent collection called 9/11 Digital Archive with the Library of Congress.  


In 2008 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship that allowed him to travel to Hyderabad to teach documentary film at the Hyderabad Central University and complete the bulk of shooting for Software from Hard Rocks, a film about a city in southern India and how it coped with a growth spurt fueled by globalization.  Software... is scheduled to be released in Summer 2012.  


Aashish is currently working on a documentary about the newly independent nation of Kosovo, tracing its conflict-ridden story of moderate Islam, nascent democracy, and its struggle for self-determination in a globalized world.  Making Kosovo is scheduled for a Spring 2013 release.

Aashish Kumar is also a tenured Associate Professor at the Radio/TV/Film Department, Hofstra University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in television and documentary production.